While cleaning out his late father’s attic, Simon Smith stumbled upon a plastic bag filled with papers. When he opened […] ...

After British publisher Leslie Smith died in November 2023, his son Simon began cleaning out his attic — and made a stunning discovery. An unassuming plastic bag full of papers turned out to contain a ...

Following recent notable additions to the public domain that include Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse from Disney’s 1928 short Steamboat Willie, and Winnie the Pooh, 2025 has ...

You may have noticed that Popeye the Sailor Man has been in the news now that the character, or at least his earliest comic ...

It is one of thousands of such heart-rending pleas that appeared in papers across the country, starting even before slavery was abolished at the end of the Civil War and continuing as late as the ...

If The Black Market is the cool, eccentric aunt of South Dakota’s flea markets, then Traders Market in Rapid City is the fun, ...

Animal cartoon characters offer timeless lessons and entertainment to audiences. Read more details about the most famous ...

Disney’s Winnie-the-Pooh has been banned on the mainland, seemingly for no reason other than the vanity of Chinese president Xi Jinping. In 2013, a photograph of Xi walking beside former US ...

Vintage Books will celebrate its 50th anniversary this month but Becky Milner, the owner of the Vancouver bookstore, said she never intended to sell books.

After fierce online bidding wars for vintage copies of “Entertaining,” a homemaking classic from 1982, the publisher decides to put it back in stores.

Gianni Rodari used puns, topsy-turvyism and zany names to invent stories for children and help children invent their own. By Mac Barnett For the three Latino kids transported to 1862 Mexico in ...